printer friendly pageENVRES 275: The Practice of Mining and Its Social and Environmental Context
Seminar focused on one of the world's oldest industries: mining. Mining is a major industrial process that underpins the provision of many of the resources that we use in our daily lives; it is also a process that has defined landscapes and communities in sometimes positive and often negative ways. Mining is often neglected in balanced discussions of resource use and sustainability, and this course aims to give students context to help ensure that its lessons are not forgotten.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Grubert, E. (PI)
ENVRES 277C: Specialized Writing and Reporting: Environmental Journalism (COMM 177C, COMM 277C, EARTHSYS 177C, EARTHSYS 277C)
(Graduate students register for COMM /
ENVRES 277C.) Practical, collaborative, writing-intensive course in science-based environmental journalism. Science and journalism students learn how to identify and write engaging stories about environmental issues and science, how to assess the quality and relevance of environmental news, how to cover the environment and science beats effectively, and how to build bridges between the worlds of journalism and science. Limited enrollment: preference to journalism students and students in the natural and environmental sciences. Prerequisite:
COMM 104,
ENVRES 200 or consent of instructor. Admissions by application only, available from thayden@stanford.edu.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Hayden, T. (PI)
ENVRES 280: Introduction to Environmental Science
For E-IPER Joint M.S. students only. This course functions as a gateway for E-IPER Joint M.S. students to learn about the variety of environmental science conducted by the program's affiliated faculty. Topics include oceans, green chemistry, water policy, energy, and others. Students engage in problem solving related to the application of science to business, law, and the conservation of natural resources.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Plambeck, E. (PI)
;
Szeptycki, L. (PI)
ENVRES 290: Capstone Project Seminar in Environment and Resources
Required for E-IPER Joint M.S. students. Propose, conduct and publicly present final individual or team projects demonstrating the integration of professional (M.B.A., J.D., or M.D.) and M.S. in Environment and Resources degrees. Presentation and submission of final product required. 3 total units required; can all be taken during one quarter or divided over two sequential quarters.
Terms: Aut, Spr
| Units: 1-3
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 6 units total)
Instructors:
Richards, A. (PI)
;
Vitousek, P. (PI)
ENVRES 300: Introduction to Resource, Energy and Environmental Economics
Examination of environmental, energy and natural resource management problems through the lens of economics, with an emphasis on hands-on practical problem-solving. Topics include market failure, cost-benefit analysis, finance, risk & uncertainty, non-market valuation, regulation, green accounting, rent, renewable resources, exhaustible resources, including energy, and biodiversity. Prerequisite: proficiency in multivariate calculus. Knowledge of basic microeconomics helpful but not essential. Open only to PhD students.
Terms: Aut, Spr
| Units: 3
ENVRES 315: Environmental Research Design Seminar
Required core course for first year E-IPER Ph.D. students; optional for Joint M.S. students; other graduate students with instructor's permission. Series of faculty presentations and student-led discussions on interdisciplinary research design as exemplars of the research design theories discussed in
ENVRES 320. Designing Environmental Research. Topics parallel the
ENVRES 320 syllabus. Corequisite:
ENVRES 320.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Stanton, C. (PI)
ENVRES 320: Designing Environmental Research
Required core course restricted to first year E-IPER Ph.D. students. Research design options for causal inference in environmentally related research. Major philosophies of knowledge and how they relate to research objectives and design choices. Identification of critical elements within a broad range of research designs. Evaluation of the types of research questions for which different designs are suited, emphasizing fit between objectives, design, methods, and argument. Development of individual research design proposals, including description and justification understandable to a non-specialist.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Davis, J. (PI)
;
Siders, A. (TA)
ENVRES 330: Research Approaches for Environmental Problem Solving
Required core course for first year E-IPER Ph.D. students. How to develop and implement interdisciplinary research in environment and resources. Assignments include development of research questions, a preliminary literature review, and a summer funding proposal. Course is structured on peer critique and student presentations of work in progress. Corequisite:
ENVRES 398 with a faculty member chosen to explore a possible dissertation topic.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
ENVRES 340: E-IPER PhD Writing Seminar
Restricted to second year E-IPER PhD students only. Actively pursue one or more writing goals relevant to this stage in their graduate studies in a structured setting. Set specific writing goals, create and follow a plan for reaching these goals, and receive substantive feedback on their written products from their peers. Examples of writing products include, but are not limited to, the student¿s dissertation proposal, E-IPER Fields of Inquiry essay, a literature review, or a grant or fellowship application. By the end of the course, students are expected to have completed or have made substantial progress toward their writing goal.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-2
Instructors:
Wojcik, D. (PI)
ENVRES 380: Collaborating with the Future: Launching Large Scale Sustainable Transformations
This project-based d.school class combines Design Thinking Processes, Behavioral Sciences, and elements of Diffusion Theory. Tools and theories introduced in class will be used to structure large-scale transformations that simultaneously create value on environmental, societal, and economic fronts. We encourage students to use this class as a launching pad for real initiatives. Primarily meant for Graduate Students. (Especially qualified/motivated Seniors will be considered). Admission to the class is through an application process which ends on March 3.nPlease find instructions and applications at
https://dschool.stanford.edu/groups/largetransformations/.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-4
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